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Re: [LUG] Pentium 100 laptop

 

On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 11:45:04AM +0000, john.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I am the proud owner of a Toshiba Pentium 100 laptop without CD drive or 
USB. I am pondering how best to install a Linux distro such as DSL or Puppy.  
> If any of you have tried such a installation I would be pleased to learn 
how it was done. 

Take the disk out, use an adapter to plug it into a desktop IDE port and 
install there, then move the disk back.

Much easier IMO than faffing with floppies (does anyone still use them? :)

Cheers,
Al.

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